Kees’s UK Ig Tour diary

Asymmetrical scrota, bulls’ penises and date rape by an ostrich: this year’s Ig Nobel tour was a risqu? business, writes Kees Moeliker…

So begins the introduction to Kees Meoliker’s diary of the just-concluded Ig Nobel tour of the UK, written specially for The Guardian. (It’s taking the place, this week, of the Improbable Research column.)

The photo is by The Guardian‘s Sarah Lee.

[Correction, entered April 18: Gita Bhutani, who told Kees about the song, wrote in to say that she had identified the wrong singer for the song about the sparra. The song was sung by Duncan Macrae.]